1882
Alexandria Forts Bombarded
British warships attack coastal defences during the Egyptian crisis.
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British warships attack coastal defences during the Egyptian crisis.
Kilmainham Treaty between Parnell & the Government, Parnell is released
Helps Australia defeat England by seven runs at The Oval.
Captains Australia to a seven-run victory over England.
Bavier serves as Switzerland's federal president during 1882.
Wagner's final completed opera is first performed at Bayreuth.
The programme contributes measurements intended to refine the astronomical unit.
Supports measurement of the astronomical unit through coordinated observations.
Bombards Alexandria during the intervention that leads to British occupation of Egypt and control of the canal route.
Orders the bombardment of Egyptian forts at Alexandria.
The occupation completes the rapid defeat of Urabi's army.
Returns to Cairo under British protection after the defeat of Urabi's forces.
His government establishes effective British control after the military victory.
Seizes the Hanoi citadel with a small French force.
Signs the Chinese Exclusion Act into law.
Federal law suspends immigration of Chinese labourers for ten years.
Passes a Royal Edict proclaiming the Emperors responsibility for Government policy
Informs the Landtag that the First Minister will be the servant of the King-Emperor
Says the Emperor is the real Minister President of Prussia
Becomes a leading figure in Japan's new Progressive Party.
Signs the Edmunds Act targeting polygamy in United States territories.
The decisive victory breaks organized Egyptian resistance.
His surrender effectively ends organized military resistance.
Is executed for assassinating President James Garfield.
The legislation strengthens federal penalties against plural marriage.
The law creates a federal head tax on arriving immigrants.
The action intensifies French intervention in northern Vietnam.
Bismarck expands Germany's network of defensive alliances.
The agreement links land-arrears concessions with political cooperation.
Guiteau is hanged after conviction for Garfield's murder.
Parnell seeks to use his experience and huge support to advance his pursuit of Home Rule and resurrect the suppressed Land League as the Irish National League (INL). Combines moderate agrarianism, a Home Rule programme with electoral functions, is hierarchical and autocratic in structure with Parnell wielding immense authority and direct Parliamentary control
Signs the Immigration Act of 1882.
Parnell leaves the day-to-day running of the INL in the hands of his lieutenants Timothy Harrington as Secretary, William OBrien editor of its newspaper United Ireland and Timothy Healy
Parnell leaves the day-to-day running of the INL in the hands of his lieutenants Timothy Harrington as Secretary, William OBrien editor of its newspaper United Ireland and Timothy Healy
Parnell leaves the day-to-day running of the INL in the hands of his lieutenants Timothy Harrington as Secretary, William OBrien editor of its newspaper United Ireland and Timothy Healy
Combines moderate agrarianism, a Home Rule programme with electoral functions, is hierarchical and autocratic in structure with Parnell wielding immense authority and direct Parliamentary control
Parnell leaves the day-to-day running of the INL in the hands of his lieutenants Timothy Harrington as Secretary, William OBrien editor of its newspaper United Ireland and Timothy Healy.
Parnell seeks to use his experience and huge support to advance his pursuit of Home Rule and resurrect the suppressed Land League as the Irish National League (INL).
The informal alliance between the new, tightly disciplined INL and the Catholic Church is one of the main factors for the revitalisation of the national Home Rule.
Helps establish the Irish National League.
Umberto's kingdom joins the defensive alliance formed in 1882.
Marx travels to Algiers seeking relief from chronic respiratory illness.
Wolseley's army secures its position during the canal-zone campaign.
The victory clears the way for the advance toward Tel el-Kebir.
Returns to Cairo after the defeat of Urabi's forces.
Reaches the political accommodation known as the Kilmainham Treaty.
Parnell seeks to use his experience and huge support to advance his pursuit of Home Rule and resurrect the suppressed Land League as the Irish National League (INL)
Appointed Minister to China
The upset at The Oval becomes the origin of the Ashes tradition.
The new organization combines Home Rule politics with moderate agrarianism.
Becomes premier of Nova Scotia.
British forces enter Cairo after victory at Tel el-Kebir.
Authorises military occupation of Egypt, giving Britain effective control over the canal zone while Egypt remains formally Ottoman.
His release follows the political settlement negotiated with Gladstone.
Parsifal receives its world premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
Is murdered in Phoenix Park on the day he reaches Dublin.
Robert Maclean tries unsuccessfully to assassinate Queen Victoria
Robert Maclean tries unsuccessfully to assassinate Queen Victoria
Britain remains in Egypt after restoring Khedive Tewfik's authority.
Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.
Tells US customs officers, "I have nothing to declare except my genius"
Is released from Kilmainham Gaol.
Helps found the Rikken Kaishinto constitutional party.
Construction begins from del Villar's neo-Gothic design.
The foundation stone of the Sagrada Familia is laid.
Challenges foreign influence in Egypt, leading Britain to intervene and occupy the canal zone.
His bowling is central to the match that inspires the Ashes legend.
Rockefeller's companies adopt a trust structure coordinating control of the oil business.
Standard Oil interests adopt a formal trust agreement.
Rockefeller consolidates control through the new trust structure.
Begins his term as President of the Swiss Confederation.
British victory restores Tewfik's authority under military protection.
His brief premiership precedes his later career in federal politics.
Organizes Belgian observations of the transit of Venus.
Organizes Belgian expeditions to observe the transit of Venus.
Germany concludes the Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungary and Italy.
Italy enters the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Pleads guilty to rebellion before an Egyptian court-martial.
Surrenders after British forces enter Cairo.
The future creator of Winnie-the-Pooh is born in Kilburn.
The future astrophysicist and relativity advocate is born.
Alan Alexander Milne is born in London.
Birth of Abdullah I
Birth of Alan Milne, creator of "Winnie the Pooh"
Birth of Andrew
Birth of Arthur Eddington
Arthur Stanley Eddington is born in Kendal, Westmorland.
Emmy Noether is born in Erlangen, Bavaria.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born at Hyde Park, New York.
Birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Birth of Getulio Vargas
Getulio Vargas is born in Sao Borja, Rio Grande do Sul.
Birth of Guenther Hans von Kluge
Hans Geiger is born in Neustadt an der Haardt.
Hugh Dowding is born in Moffat, Scotland.
Igor Stravinsky is born at Oranienbaum near Saint Petersburg.
James Franck is born in Hamburg, Germany.
James Joyce is born in Dublin.
Birth of Kurt von Schleicher
Max Born is born in Breslau, Germany.
Birth of Muhammad Mossadeq
Otto Neurath is born in Vienna.
Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset is born in Kalundborg, Denmark.
Birth of Virginia Woolf
Virginia Stephen, later Virginia Woolf, is born in London.
Birth of Wilhelm
Birth of Wilhelm Keitel
The future pioneering algebraist is born into a mathematical family.
The future Democratic president is born into the Roosevelt family.
The future Brazilian president is born in southern Brazil.
The future developer of radiation counters is born in Germany.
The future commander of RAF Fighter Command is born.
The future composer of The Rite of Spring is born.
The future Nobel physicist is born into a Hamburg family.
The future modernist novelist is born at Rathgar.
The future quantum physicist and Nobel laureate is born.
The future Vienna Circle philosopher is born in Austria.
The future Nobel literature laureate is born while her parents are in Denmark.
The future modernist writer is born at Hyde Park Gate.
Death of Anthony Trollope
Irish National Invincibles kill Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke.
His death sentence is immediately commuted to perpetual exile.
Defeats Urabi's army in a surprise dawn attack.
British forces defeat an Egyptian attack near Kassassin.
British forces defeat another Egyptian attack at Kassassin.
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